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	Percy Grainger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Percy Aldridge Grainger (8 July 1882 – 20 February 1961) was an Australian-born pianist, composer, and champion of the saxophone.
		Rose Grainger's health, however, both mental and physical, was in decline, and she committed suicide in 1922 by jumping from a tall building.
		Percy Grainger died in New York City and he was buried in Adelaide, Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Percy_Grainger (948 words)

	Classical Net Review - Percy Grainger
		Although Grainger's "inner weather" seemed to mix a boy's playroom with the Hellfire Club, his outward eccentricities and his adventures as concert pianist and brilliant inventor mark him as one of the few exceptions to the general rule.
		Grainger took the name we know him by - Percy Aldridge Grainger - at least in part as a reminder of his mother: Aldridge was her maiden name.
		Grainger practiced flagellation (both whipper and whippee), made nude photographs of himself after various sessions, and left an explanatory document with his lawyer in case his wife or he himself were found dead in strange circumstances.
	www.classical.net /music/books/reviews/0198166524a.html (1491 words)

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		Percy Grainger was born in Melbourne, Australia on July 8, 1882 to John Harry Grainger, an architect, and Rose Annie Aldridge.
		Percy attended the Village Competition at the Brigg Festival where the newly introduced Folksong class was judged and prizes given to the best unpublished song performed by the locals.
		Percy was well aware of the historical and personal significance of his undertaking.
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	Grainger, Percy Aldridge
		Percy Aldridge Grainger was born on 8 July 1882 in Brighton, Victoria (Australia), to the renowned architect John H. Grainger.
		Grainger also increasingly dedicated himself to the research and the publication of medieval music and the music of foreign cultures.
		Percy Alridge Grainger died on 20 February 1961 in New York and was buried in his family’s grave in Adelaide, South Australia.
	www.schott-music.com /autoren/KomponistenAZ/show,3510.html (366 words)

	The University of melbourne - Library - The Grainger Museum - Music by Percy Grainger
		Percy Grainger's life was a virtuoso performance, rich in imagination and energy, spanning many lands.
		Whereas Grainger's bias was "English-speaking and Scandinavian", the scene is international and comprises a vast range of material relating to music, its composer and performers: "The sources," said Grainger in 1938, "from which composers draw their inspiration."
		With generous financial support from the Music Board, Australia Council, and the University of Melbourne, Dr. Dreyfus and her colleagues have worked on behalf of the Grainger Museum Board under the general direction of the University Archives Department.
	www.lib.unimelb.edu.au /collections/grainger/publications/mus.index/catalogue1.html (283 words)

	Grainger Museum - Percy Grainger's Background
		Born George Percy Grainger, Grainger was born on 8 July 1882 at Brighton, Victoria.
		Grainger, was a well-known architect whose designs included the Princes Bridge in Melbourne.
		After the war, Grainger continued his hectic life of concert tours and lectures, including tours to Australia (during which, in the 1930s, he set up the Grainger Museum).
	www.lib.unimelb.edu.au /collections/grainger/people/grainger.circle/percy.grainger/percy.grainger.html (389 words)

	Percy Grainger -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1906 Grainger became a friend of Edvard Grieg, under whose influence he began collecting and recording English folk songs by means of wax-cylinder phonographs.
		Grainger was deeply affected by the suicide of his mother in 1922.
		Grainger was heavily influenced by English folk music, which he arranged for keyboard instruments, chamber ensembles, and both solo voice and chorus.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9037625 (834 words)

	Grainger, Percy Aldridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Varcoe is always fine in Grainger's morbid moments; his authoritative version of "The Three Ravens" is beautifully supported by a hushed chorus, and he and a male chorus are gloriously hard-hearted in the pipe-organ and piano-supported version of Kipling's tale of a military execution "Danny Deever".
		Hickox also remembers that Grainger was a man of his time and place--sentimentality is a part of what this music is for as well, as long as it is not laid on with a trowel.
		Grainger was proud of the fact that, even in juvenilia superficially like much salon music, he had stretched the vocabulary of music--some of these pieces from the late 1890s anticipate, rather than echo, Debussy; the "Norse Dirge" is particularly powerful--Grainger at his most lyrically gloomy.
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	Percy Grainger Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The majority of Grainger’s hitherto unpublished music is in the process of being brought into print by Bardic Edition in association with the Grainger Society and Estate.
		Membership details for the USA and Canada are available from: The International Percy Grainger Society, 7 Cromwell Place, White Plains, NY 10601 or via their new website.
		The Significance of Percy Grainger - Timothy Reynish
	www.bardic-music.com /grainger.htm (1432 words)

	Grainger, Percy (1882 - 1961) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Australian pianist and composer Percy Grainger, an eccentric figure, may seem of marginal importance.
		Grainger's original instrumental music includes the delightful Handel in the Strand, intended for piano trio, piano quartet or string orchestra, and Mock Morris, for either string sextet or violin and piano, or again in arrangements for string or full orchestra.
		Grainger wrote some original songs and choral music as well as solo and choral arrangements of folk-songs.
	www.naxos.com /composer/grainger.htm (263 words)

	Philwinds: Composers' Corner: Percy Aldridge Grainger
		Conscious of the way his name seemed always to be linked with folksong, Grainger was often at pains to emphasize what he regarded as his more important work: his original compositions using entirely his own ideas.
		For us who wish to perform and hear his music, this is too narrow a limitation, for Grainger is not just a composer, he is the door to a vast musical world suffused with his own vital influence.
		Grainger is an amalgamation of enormous talents, extreme ideals and complex contradictions.
	www.philharmonicwinds.org /composer_grainger.htm (124 words)

	Percy Grainger -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Grainger first appeared publicly as a pianist at age 10.
		U.S. dramatist and poet Percy MacKaye wrote numerous community entertainments known as masques and poetic plays, noted for their use of historical and contemporary folk literature.
		Percy and Ruth Crawford and the Birth of Televangelism
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	Grainger, George Percy Aldridge - G - Composers - Composition - Music - Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Grainger, Percy (1882 - 1961) - Brief biography with summaries of his instrumental, vocal, and keyboard music.
		Percy Grainger - Biography, photographic portrait, pictures of the tomb shared with his mother's ashes, links, and virtual memorial from Find a Grave.
		Picture of Percy Grainger at the Piano - Photograph of him in 1950, with Lieutenant Colonel Resta conducting the United States Military Academy Band at Carnegie Hall.
	www.netz-in-berlin.de /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/G/Grainger,_George_Percy_Aldridge (670 words)

	Percy Aldridge Grainger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Percy Grainger was born in Australia on July 8th, 1882.
		Artistic verdicts on a composer like Percy Aldridge Grainger can only be passed when all known facts have been considered without prejudice, an axiom which condemned Grainger himself to misunderstanding in his lifetime and has postponed an accurate appraisal of his contribution to modern music until the recent past.
		Many of these pieces were “dished up” for ensembles as diverse as wind quintet and piano duet, a practice which Grainger followed all his life, and which, with the often extensive period between a work's conception and completion, renders opus numbers invalid as a register of his output.
	www.bardic-music.com /Pag.htm (2247 words)

	Percy Aldridge Grainger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The warm colors are reflective of the rich harmonies Grainger uses.
		The shaping within the different areas of the painting reflect the different shapes of the different sections of Grainger's piece.
		This painting was produced in Ireland, about Ireland, at the same time as "Irish Tune from County Derry" was composed.
	www.bsu.edu /web/cdghormley/irishtuneunitstudy/artconnections.htm (151 words)

	Percy Aldridge Grainger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This is where he spent the first 13 years of his life under the guidance of his mother, Rose.
		She had Percy study the Arts and instilled in him a Heroic outlook on life.
		This is where he composed most of his early works: "Shepherd's Hey", and "Handel in the Strand." His mother tragically committed suicide in 1922 causing Grainger to reevaluate his life.
	www.bsu.edu /web/cdghormley/irishtuneunitstudy/background.htm (391 words)

	Percy Aldridge Grainger - Classical Composers Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Percy Aldridge Grainger wrote music for winds especially with an emphasis on woodwinds, including many oboes, basoons, and clarinets.
		Composed by George Gershwin (1898-1937), arranged by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961).
		Frederick Fennell & the Eastman Wind Ensemble: Grainger; Persichetti...
	www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=grainger (688 words)

	Children's March Percy Aldridge Grainger - Concert Band Medium Easy, Grade 3 from Music 44
		A true "classic" in every sense of the word, this delightful Grainger work continues to be an audience favorite.
		The wonderful vitality of Grainger's unique tonal colors and whimsical rhythms guarantee a superior experience for your concert and contest performances.
		A true "classic" in every sense of the word, this delightful Percy Grainger work continues to be an audience favorite.
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	Chronology Percy Aldridge Grainger - w w w . p e r c y g r a i n g e r . c o m
		Birth of George Percy Grainger at Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria.
		Grainger begins to study with a former Pabst pupil, Adelaide Burkitt.
		This was the only formal award Grainger would ever accept for his accomplishments.
	home.hetnet.nl /~percygrainger/chronologie-gb.htm (643 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Percy Grainger
		Find the music of Percy Grainger in the Archives.
		Grainger, Percy (Aldridge) (b Brighton, Victoria, 1882; d White Plains, NY, 1961).
		Grainger's NY début was in 1914, after which the USA became his home.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/grainger.html (446 words)

	Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestra - Fennell Conducts Grainger & Coates - Audio CD, Compact Discs At Earfloss.com
		Percy Grainger is a well-known composer whose music features intricate melodies, difficult chord structures, and odd instrumentations.
		Add to that a conductor who is famous for how he conducts the works of Percy Grainger, and you have a phenomenal recording.
		Join conductor Frederick Fennell and the Eastman Pops Orchestra as they present, to you, the music of the masterful Percy Grainger.
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	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Grainger, Percy Aldridge @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		GRAINGER, PERCY ALDRIDGE [Grainger, Percy Aldridge], 1882-1961, Australian-American pianist and composer.
		A friend of Grieg, whose music he often played, he settled (1914) in the United States after establishing an international reputation as a pianist and composer.
		Our archive contains millions of documents from thousands of sources and goes back over 23 years.
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	Grainger - The Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management - We've Moved!
		Dr Alan Grainger's research interests include the modelling and monitoring of tropical deforestation and land use change, and the study of the role of
		To start, go to Grainger and buy the right brass pressure relief valve, (Saving the third barb for the next time you modify a grainger valve is a good
		Grainger County is the undiscovered gem of East Tennessee.
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	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Percy Grainger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Percy Grainger; all previous versions may be viewed here.
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	Percy Aldridge Grainger Sheet music : Lyrics and tabs
		Percy Aldridge Grainger: Piano Album Composed by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961).
		George Gershwin: The Man I Love Composed by George Gershwin (1898-1937), arranged by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961).
		Country Gardens and Other Works for Piano By Percy Aldridge Grainger.
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	AllRefer.com - Percy Aldridge Grainger (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Percy Aldridge Grainger, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
		Percy Aldridge Grainger[grAn´jur] Pronunciation Key, 1882–1961, Australian-American pianist and composer.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Percy Aldridge Grainger
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	Carl Fischer Search
		Long out of print, Lads of Wamphray is one of Grainger’s most accessible original pieces.
		All the charm and wit for which Grainger is justly celebrated are on display in this tour de force of wind band scoring.
		23 of Grainger’s British Folk Music settings, Molly on the Shore is a rollicking treatment of a popular Irish Reel.
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	Grainger, George Percy Aldridge
		Additional Information: Australian Modern composer Percy Grainger (1882-1961), while he wrote little that might be considered "serious" music, nevertheless produced both original pieces and arrangements that remain popular.
		Music, instruments, manuscripts, artworks, textiles and costumes related to the life and contemporaries of Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961).
		A short description of Grainger's Let's Dance Gay in Green Meadow, an example of his folk-music based piano music.
	www.canadiancontent.net /dir/Top/Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/G/Grainger,_George_Percy_Aldridge (326 words)

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